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She started out with a pair of scissors, a phone and a vision of the perfect frock... Now designer Alice Temperley's whimsical dresses are being snapped up by A-listers from Sarah Jessica Parker to Gwyneth Paltrow. But she still hasn't fulfilled all her ambitions, discovers Chloe Fox.

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As Bush's presidency continues to nose-dive at the polls, many Republicans now believe they made the wrong choice when they chose George W over John McCain. But the straight-talking senator faces a major obstacle - he's more popular in the country than in his own party. Paul Harris reports.

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He's a national treasure: an acting colossus whose extraordinary repertoire has taken in everything from Alfred the Great to Zebedee. And with the Da Vinci Code and X-Men 3 due for release next month, Sir Ian McKellen is showing no sign of putting up his feet. Here, he talks to Simon Garfield about American homophobics and English eccentrics, and why doing Corrie proves 'he can't be a star'.

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Tim Atkin: 'We have massive baboon problems,' Jennifer Scott of Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards told me with a mixture of resignation and exasperation. And I thought I'd heard everything in the wine business ...